Launching this week

Toronto writer Lisa Foad has been a major presence on the local lit scene, contributing to edgy anthologies and performing at the Scream spoken word fest, but until now hasn't released her own book. The wait's over. She launches her collection of gritty short stories, The Night Is A Mouth (Exile, $21.95), Monday (January 19) at the Gladstone. Mariko Tamaki does the interview honours as part of Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series.